http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/nyregi...
The "2000 Profile of College Bound Seniors- It's very true that most of our teachers do not come from the upper 1/3 of their graduating class. Could this be that these students have seen all of the work, as well as the lack of pay and respect that their teachers have received and they know that if they went into almost any other field their pay and respect would increase greatly. Who wants to work hard, get great grades, and then enter a profession where they are constantly belittled in the mass media, and can't support themselves on the pay for an average workweek?
-12/7/07 Washington Post- This is partially because the of the No Child Left Behind law which focuses solely on the testing of language and math. Because schools aren't tested in science, many schools, especially those in poor areas where children don't have a lot of parental and environmental support to do well on the standardized tests, have stopped teaching science so that they can give their children extra class time or tutoring time in math and language. Additionally, the teaching of science in American has become a tricky subject. This is because of all of the religious groups demanding that their religious beliefs be taught either along side or in some cases INSTEAD of science. Here is an example:http://io9.com/5896836/nyc-dept-of-educa...
-12/15/10 Chicago Tribune- This is because they know first hand how the NCLB school reform is horrible and don't want their children to be a victim of it.
-3/9/11 AP - Do you know what gives a school the label of "failing" ? It's not that the children are failing the tests, it's one subgroup of children in your school making ENOUGH growth. In other words, if every child in your school is in the advanced or proficient range and the next year all of the children are still in the advanced or proficient range, but one subgroup of children goes from having 96 percent in the advanced range to 98 percent in the advanced range, but according to the NCLB numbers they were slated for having 99 percent in the advanced range, the WHOLE school is labeled as failing. That's why Arne Duncan said "We should get out of the business of labeling schools as failures and create a new law that is fair and flexible..." The law we have at the moment is anything but fair and flexible.
I know this sounds dumb but I don't blame the teachers as much as what their Unions have become. Their are too many hard working teachers, who have students that no one at home want, dumped on them and we cant blame them under one umbrella.
Sink into what
Cut that down the question is missleading. Teachers are all bad!. Joke teachers are here to help you live the life.
Sink into what?
3/23/12 New York Post: New York grades its teachers. The extremist teachers’ union is pushing for a law prohibiting parents from knowing what those grades are. It is likely to pass. Of course, the member teachers just sit back and watch, kind of like “moderate” Muslims do after one of their extremist brothers kills a Jew or blows up something.
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Next these thugs will pass a law prohibiting us from knowing things like this:
-The "2000 Profile of College Bound Seniors," a report from the College Board which administers the SAT, tracked what majors 10,280 Michigan high school students chose in college. The highest SAT scorers shunned education majors, the lowest scorers chose education majors. Of the 6 percent of students who selected education as a major, their average math score was 35 points below the state average and 26 points below in verbal scores. Would-be teacher majors tied with “home economics” majors. And the results of their performance are obvious, to the whole world:
-12/7/07 Washington Post: “The scores from the 2006 Program for International Student Assessment showed that U.S. 15-year-olds trailed their peers from many industrialized countries. The average science score of U.S. students lagged behind those in 16 of 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based group that represents the world's richest countries. The U.S. students were further behind in math, trailing counterparts in 23 countries.”
-12/15/10 Chicago Tribune: “As recently as 2004, a Thomas B. Fordham Institute study found that 39 percent of CPS teachers sent their own kids to private schools.
-3/9/11 AP: An estimated 82 percent of U.S. schools could be labeled as "failing" under the nation's No Child Left Behind Act this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday. "We should get out of the business of labeling schools as failures and create a new law that is fair and flexible, and focused on the schools and students most at risk," Duncan said. [translation: lower standards…again]
